Small space gardening

This is a long overdue end-of-summer photo-post showing the transformation of my small space garden areas including my new side yard beds. I’m finally getting these photos together in the month of February following the growing season that ended months ago here in Central Illinois. Ironically enough, we had a blizzard last night, and everything is covered in about seven inches of snow. I guess this record-setting, very long, hellashusly (no help from spellcheck on that one) snowy winter has me dreaming of my summer garden! So here are my results.

The following three photos are of the planting bed near my front door that has both flowers and vegetables in it. Spring, early summer and late summer. From now on, I will always plant veggies in this flower bed!

Front and center is a volunteer mini pumpkin plant that I moved into my front flower bed from my back yard vegetable garden.

And here are some pictures just for fun of plants that did well.

Here you can see my herb garden area before the dill seed took over!

And here’s after the dill seed took over.

Again, most of the planting beds pictured in this post are tiny. My hope is that those of you who wish to grow flowers and vegetables, but have limited planting space will see that it’s possible, and will give it a try.

This blog was written by Tracy Evans who is a Certified Home Stager, Certified Redesigner and a Journeyman Painter servicing the Bloomington/Normal, IL area. You can view her portfolios at www.HelpAtHomeStaging.com for more before and after photos.